Garment-stiffener.



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UNiTED STATES PATENT CFFICE.

HARRY FEDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARNIENT-STIFFENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 717,373, datedDecember 30, 1902.l Application filed February 28,1902. Serial No.96,050.` (No model.)

Zo all whom, t may concern/.f

Be it known that I, HARRY FEDER, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city and- State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Garment-Stiffener, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to a garment-stiffener with the object in View ofproviding an inexpensive durable stiifener of any desired degree ofresiliency and capable of receiving with great freedom a needle forstitching a casing thereon.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view of the stiffener with apart of the casing turned down to show the arrangement of the partscomposing the body of the stiffener. Fig. l* represents atransversesection of the Figs. 2, 3, and 4 represent stiffenerbodiescomposed of different members and arrangements of parts, and Figs. 2*,3*, and 4* represent transverse sections of the same.

The body of the stiener is composed of one or more strands or parts ofhorn or bone, preferably horn, and one or more strairds or parts ofpaper. The strands of horn and paper are intimately connected, so thateach will be modified in its movement by the other, the horn furnishingthe greater amount of stiffness and elasticity and the paper servingtoprevent the horn from bending at a sharp angle suflcient to cause itto become set or broken, lessening the Weight of the stiffener, andfurnishing means for stitching the casing to the stiffener withoutrequiring the needle to pass through the horn or bone.

The horn or bone strands are denoted by d, the paper strands by b, andthe casing of some suitable fabric by c.

The horn strands are each preferably protected, as shown, by apaperenvelop d, wound tightly thereon and so treated With gum or shellac asto effectively protect the strands from the influence of the atmosphere.

The paper strands b are formed by Winding or twisting a thin sheet orstrip of paper into a tight coil, like a cord, and then treating thestrand with some suitable Waterproofing substance-such, for exampleasrubber solution or shellac.

The stiffener is formed by placing the horn and paper strands side byside and winding them with thread e to hold' them in position andsubsequently covering them with a casing c, stitched thereon, the linesof stitching f passing along the outer edges of the assembled group ofstrands and through the intermediate paper strands, one or more of them,as may be found expedient.

In Fig. l the stiffener is represented as composed of two horn and threepaper strands, in Fig. 2 of one horn and two paper strands, in Fig. 3 oftwo horn and one paper strand, and in Fig. 4 of one horn and one paperstrand.

It is obvious that the relative number of horn and paper strands may bechanged at pleasure to secure the required stiness and elasticity.

It is intended to make the stilfener in a continuous piece and cut it edin lengths to suit.

The continuous paper strand serves to reinforce any possible weak spotin the horn, causing it to bend in a rounded curve instead of a sharpangle, as the tendency is when a Weak point chances to come at the pointWhere the bend naturally takes place.

The stiffener is light, supple, and guarded from the influences of theatmosphere and from the moisture of the body and may be furnished at a10W cost.

What I claim isl. A garment-stiener composed of horn or bone andresilient paper strands intimately connected to move together.

2. A garment-stiffener composed of horn or bone and resilient paperstrands bound together and provided With a fabric casing stitchedthereon, a line of stitches passing along a paper strand.

3. A garment-stiffener composed of horn or bone and resilient paperstrands, the paper strands being Waterproof, and intimately bound to thehorn or bone strands to move together therewith.

4. A garment-stiener composed of horn 01' my invention I have signed myname, in presbone and resilient paper strands, the horn or ence of twowitnesses, this 26th day of Feblo bone strands being each provided withan enruary, 1902. l

velop of paper to protect them from the at- 5' mosphere and the paperstrands being Water- HARRY FEDER' proof and bound to the horn or bonestrands Witnesses: to move together therewith. FREDK. HAYNES,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as HENRY THIEME.

